Comments on: Newsflash: Overstock.com paid stalker Judd Bagley admits to use of spyware http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2008/07/25/newsflash-overstockcom-paid-stalker-judd-bagley-admits-to-use-of-spyware/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:05:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tracy Coenen http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2008/07/25/newsflash-overstockcom-paid-stalker-judd-bagley-admits-to-use-of-spyware/comment-page-1/#comment-162320 Tracy Coenen Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:01:08 +0000 http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/?p=1707#comment-162320 Copying that linked post from InvestorVillage, in case it should go missing... It was posted by Judd Bagley under his screen name De Daumier-Smith: <blockquote>Re: Yahoo Dissembler Sorting I'm not saying I figured out the DSA, although I did figure out an innovative way around the daily ban limit Yahoo imposes. That stays with me. And the name is intentionally stalkinghorse-ish. The Dissemblers are the bashers we're busting. Sorting is what you do when you put something in a database (mine has almost 1,000 linked username entries). And algorithm is probably just a word to intimidate the techno-feeble. The cool thing I figured out was using ActiveMeter on remote sites. Maybe its been done before (In fact, I'm sure it must have) but this iteration was developed independently by me and you have no idea the insights it has yielded.</blockquote> Copying that linked post from InvestorVillage, in case it should go missing…

It was posted by Judd Bagley under his screen name De Daumier-Smith:

Re: Yahoo Dissembler Sorting
I’m not saying I figured out the DSA, although I did figure out an innovative way around the daily ban limit Yahoo imposes. That stays with me.

And the name is intentionally stalkinghorse-ish. The Dissemblers are the bashers we’re busting. Sorting is what you do when you put something in a database (mine has almost 1,000 linked username entries). And algorithm is probably just a word to intimidate the techno-feeble.

The cool thing I figured out was using ActiveMeter on remote sites. Maybe its been done before (In fact, I’m sure it must have) but this iteration was developed independently by me and you have no idea the insights it has yielded.

]]> By: Nobody or maybe somebody http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2008/07/25/newsflash-overstockcom-paid-stalker-judd-bagley-admits-to-use-of-spyware/comment-page-1/#comment-162319 Nobody or maybe somebody Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:50:08 +0000 http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/?p=1707#comment-162319 The significant admission was made a year and a half ago. http://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=3532&pt=msg&mn=3495 The key issue is tracking people across 3rd party websites (what he means when he says "remote"), regardless of where the cookie was inserted. The rest just creates strawmen to hide behind. The significant admission was made a year and a half ago.

http://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=3532&pt=msg&mn=3495

The key issue is tracking people across 3rd party websites (what he means when he says “remote”), regardless of where the cookie was inserted.

The rest just creates strawmen to hide behind.

]]> By: Judd Bagley http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2008/07/25/newsflash-overstockcom-paid-stalker-judd-bagley-admits-to-use-of-spyware/comment-page-1/#comment-162309 Judd Bagley Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:03:02 +0000 http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/?p=1707#comment-162309 Nice effort, Tracy, but it helps to understand what you're writing about before committing something to print. A tracking cookie is not spyware. And if it were, you'd be guilty of a double infraction, since every visitor to your little blog picks up both ActiveMeter and Google Analytics tracking cookies. If you knew how either worked, you'd know that once an individual picks up such a cookie, it's possible for you to see when they use the same computer to view your pages from distinct locations. The only difference is, I knew Dan Schoenherr's IP address, just like you, as the sequence-inc.com web mistress, now know mine. Please either make the correction, or admit to your own double ethical breach. Nice effort, Tracy, but it helps to understand what you’re writing about before committing something to print.

A tracking cookie is not spyware. And if it were, you’d be guilty of a double infraction, since every visitor to your little blog picks up both ActiveMeter and Google Analytics tracking cookies.

If you knew how either worked, you’d know that once an individual picks up such a cookie, it’s possible for you to see when they use the same computer to view your pages from distinct locations. The only difference is, I knew Dan Schoenherr’s IP address, just like you, as the sequence-inc.com web mistress, now know mine.

Please either make the correction, or admit to your own double ethical breach.

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